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2 months ago ::
Apr 04, 2013 - 12:32PM
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I actually had a similar problem with my Fungus Amongus deck (Thallids), too, except my friends irrationally went after me when I wasn't being aggro. Thallids? Aggro? Since when? You can speed it up with Sporoloth Ancient and other cards, but thallids are not aggro. Anyway, I had to nuke the whole deck because as soon as the guys saw a thallid, I was the 'biggest' threat on the table... ???
So I did what any vengeful person would do, and built a far more mechanically solid saproling deck with aggro hate galore. I taught them a lesson and made sure they knew it, too. But I also went back and upgraded most of my decks to survive similar knee-jerk reactions. Now, I don't field decks unless they are sound, no matter how much I like the idea. I reject more deck ideas than I field, and I purpose-build decks for the type of format they'll run in. I also run more global hate and recovery in the decks. My win % has gone up dramatically and I fully deserve the hate that comes my way, now! I can live with that.
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2 months ago ::
Apr 11, 2013 - 9:45AM
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Date Joined:
Dec 30, 2011
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You could try to play things a little different with your friends, say two-headed dragon, or perhaps planechase, that way you might not be targeted as much. You could take a chance and make some new decks to throw people off. Maybe even have some red herring cards. What some of my friends do is play so you can only attack the person on your left and you defend from the person to the right, if you kill the person to the left you move on to the next one and so on. Yeah, sometimes free-for all has that problem. And it might be that your decks are particularly annoying to the other players. Does this mean you should never use them? No but swich it up. What might also work so that others can see what it feels like is suggest that for a match or two everybody plays with somebody elses deck. Whoever gets your deck will probably be targeted (and if they are not you can make it a point to the group that they are being jerks to you).
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